WEST MEMPHIS — Services for Stephen Carl McCarty, 59, of Marion were conducted at Wolfe Brothers Funeral Home in West Memphis on Wednesday, March 7, 2012.

Steve passed away on Friday, March 2, 2012, at Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Mo., following a battle with leukemia.

He leaves his wife, Gaye McCarty of Marion; his parents, Robert and Lillian McCarty of Helena-West Helena; a sister, Lynn McCarty Tacker (Herman) of Memphis, Tenn.; three daughters, Lindsey McCarty Flores (Daniel) of Austin, Texas, Elizabeth McCarty of Jackson Hole, Wyo., and Katie McCarty of Russellville; two stepsons, Steven and Scott Edwards of Blytheville; and a precious granddaughter, Eva Catherine Flores of Austin, Texas.

Steve attended Central High School and graduated from Columbia Military Academy in Columbia, Tenn., in 1971. He then attended Memphis State University for which he played his favorite sport, football. Hino Toyota manufacturing plant in Marion employed him.